Re: Anything against unstable debian distributions?
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Ranty wrote:
> I want to install tkstep but for that I need libc6 which conflicts with
> libc5 and when I try to uninstall switch libc5 with libc6 were is a lot of
> aplications which want to go away.
>
> I thought of using a newer unstable distribution with all those
> aplications copiled for libc6 but then... How unstable are those distributions?
> Why are they called unstable?...
"unstable" isn't necessarily as unstable as the name implys. I run all my
personal machines syncronized with the unstable tree most of the time and
encounter very few problems. Things break occasionally, but downgrading
packages generally fixes it. For a primer on converting, check out my
Mini-HOWTO at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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